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I’ve made some additions to an earlier post that I wrote (“Empty Memory: Telephone Number 20080 (Warsaw, Nazi Occupied Poland and the Holocaust, 1941”) on this blog based on an unused soldier’s diary and telephone directory for Nazi-controlled Warsaw.
It is a shocking to see this thing, such a simple bit of orderliness representing such gigantic cruelty.
Please follow this link to read the extended post.